Class:10
Important questions (Natural Vegetation)
Part: 1
Very short
1. Which forest regions of India are also known as
rain Forests?
2. Write the names of the typical trees of the
Evergreen forests.
3. How is it that the main regions of the monsoon
forests are in the interior of the Southern
Peninsula?
4. What are Littoral Forests OR tidal forests? Name
the principal trees that grow in these forests.
5. Give to characteristics of Tidal Forests.
6. What are Sunderbans?
7. Describe the type of vegetation found in the
Deccan Plateau and in the Thar Desert
respectively.
8. Classify the following trees as Soft-wood and
Hard wood trees: fir, pine, teak, spruce,
rosewood, sandalwood, chir, sal, shisham and
silver fir.
9. Give one important use of each of the following
types of trees: 1 Sundri, 2 Sandalwood, 3
Rosewood.
10. Name any three trees found in monsoon
deciduous forests and state one use of each of
these trees.
Short
1. With reference to the Natural Vegetation of
India, classify the following trees under trhe
heading: Kind of forests with which they are
associated: chir, pine, teak, ebony, rosewood,
khajuri, eucalyptus, sandalwood, babul.
2. Why are Evergreen forests composed of thick
vegetation and dense foliage?
3. Give one use of each of the following trees:
mahogany, rosewood, ebony, cinchona,
bamboo.
4. What is a monsoon forest? What are the chief
characteristics of monsoon forests?
5. Describe the type of trees found growing in the
monsoon forests of Western India. Which has
the government designated areas where thses
trees are cultivated as Reserves?
6. What are the characteristics of the Mangrove
and give one use.
7. Write two main characteristics of Deciduous
Monsoon Forests.
8. Two characteristics of Tropical rain forest.
9. How do the trees of the desert adapt
themselves to the arid conditions?
10. Name the various uses of the coconut tree.
11. Give the importance of the date-palm.
12. Name two important trees each of the Srinagar
Valley in Kashmir and the Dandakaranya region
in South India, indicating their commercial
importance.
13. Describe briefly the value of forests to man.
14. Give the names of four important products of
forests. Why are forests grown in and around
iron and steel cities?
Long
1. Give one use of each: teak, sal, myrobalan,
sisam, sandalwood, eucalyptus.
2. Mountain vegetation consists not of a single
type but of several types. Give reasons.
3. Explain the terms: Re-afforestation and Forest
Conservation.
4. Mention three methods for the conservation
and development of forests in India.
5. a. Name the region where desert vegetation is
found
b. Give one characteristic of these trees.
c. Name the principal trees of this region.
d .Give one use of Babul, Khair.